Hello gnupg-users! I am the lead dev on Mailpile, a free software e-mail client where we're doing our best to improve the usability of PGP-encrypted e-mail. I have been pondering for quite some time the relative merits of various ways of formatting otugoing encrypted mail, and this weekend I took the time to summarize my findings and opinions in a blog post:
https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-11-21_To_PGP_MIME_Or_Not.html The "tl;dr" is that it might be worth dropping PGP/MIME for outgoing encrypted mail and instead use a more ad-hoc approach which interoperates with more mail clients. I'm also tentatively proposing an approach to reducing the header metadata leakage (Subject, From, To, etc. being sent in the clear). Note that we already support incoming PGP/MIME and have no intention of abandoning that, it's merely a question of what is the best (default) format for outgoing encrypted mail. As folks on this list have been using GPG in the real world longer than most, I would very much appreciate your feedback, experience and opinions. Thanks! -- Sent using Mailpile, Free Software from www.mailpile.is
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